Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Family Divisions and Inequalities in Modern Society

  • Book
  • © 1989

Overview

Editors:
  1. Paul Close

    1. Teesside Polytechnic, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Paul Close
    Pages 1-4

  3. Toward a Framework for the Analysis of Family Divisions and Inequalities in Modern Society

    • Paul Close
    Pages 5-41

  4. Persistence and Change in the Family and Gender in Australian Society

    • Michael Bittman, Lois Bryson
    Pages 42-64

  5. The Continuing Case of Japan

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 65-79

  6. The Significance of the Family and Marriage in the Federal Republic of Germany

    • Rosemarie Nave-Herz
    Pages 80-91

  7. Myth and Reality in the Discovery and Representation of Childhood

    • Giovanni Sgritta, Angelo Saporiti
    Pages 92-111

  8. Reproduction in Norway: an Area of Non-Responsibility?

    • An-Magritt Jensen
    Pages 112-127

  9. Illegitimacy, Inequality and the Law in England and Wales

    • Rosemary Collins
    Pages 128-150

  10. The Family and Feminism in France

    • Claire Duchen
    Pages 151-168

  11. Mary Richmond and the Origins of Social Casework in America

    • Eli Zaretsky
    Pages 169-183

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 184-203
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

A collection of essays on the social divisions and inequalities encompassing and pervading family life in modern society. It covers issues at the forefront of current social discourse and presents information and ideas relevant to progressive social policy, administration and change.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Teesside Polytechnic, UK

    Paul Close

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation